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bug#55620: 29.0.50; Eshell doesn't reset `eshell-in-pipeline-p' in subco


From: Jim Porter
Subject: bug#55620: 29.0.50; Eshell doesn't reset `eshell-in-pipeline-p' in subcommands
Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 19:20:59 -0700

From `emacs -Q -f eshell':

  ~ $ echo $eshell-in-pipeline-p
  ;; no output
  ~ $ echo ${echo $eshell-in-pipeline-p}
  ;; no output
  ~ $ echo ${echo $eshell-in-pipeline-p} | cat
  first

(Note: in the first two cases, `eshell-in-pipeline-p' is nil, so there's no output.) The last case is surprising: it's true that the inner `echo' invocation is in a pipeline, but the pipeline is a level above it (`first' means that when `eshell-in-pipeline-p' was evaluated, it was the first command in a pipeline). Since the inner `echo' is effectively in a subshell, it makes more sense for the value of `eshell-in-pipeline-p' to be nil for the last case.

While this is a seemingly-obscure issue, there is one practical effect that might bite users: currently, the Eshell implementation of `cat' only works when *not* in a pipeline. Usually, it'll just fall back to using the real system `cat' program if the Eshell version doesn't work, but on systems without `cat' (e.g. MS Windows), you get the following error:

  ~ $ echo ${cat file.txt} | echo
  Eshell’s ‘cat’ does not work in pipelines

Patch forthcoming momentarily; just getting a bug number...





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